{"id":24185,"date":"2025-05-22T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cryptocurrency-community-celebrates-bitcoin-pizza-day-once-again\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:21:14","slug":"cryptocurrency-community-celebrates-bitcoin-pizza-day-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cryptocurrency-community-celebrates-bitcoin-pizza-day-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency Community Celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 22, the crypto community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day, marking the day when cryptocurrency was first used as a medium of exchange in the real world.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? HISTORY: 15 years ago today, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first Bitcoin transaction to buy two Papa John&#8217;s pizzas for 10,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> worth $40 at that time. <\/p>\n<p>That would have been worth over $1.1B today. Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> Pizza Day! ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xsXnJCUv2O\">pic.twitter.com\/xsXnJCUv2O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cointelegraph\/status\/1925432002922389853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas from Papa John\u2019s, initiating the history of Bitcoin as a payment method.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, the first cryptocurrency was valued at ~$40. As of writing, the purchase is equivalent to $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase demonstrated that cryptocurrency could serve as a full-fledged medium of exchange, rather than merely an experimental asset.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Bitcoin Pizza Day is seen as a significant milestone for the entire industry. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts exchange memes, hold meetups, share stories on social media, and conduct educational webinars.<\/p>\n<p>Some communities also organize charitable events and support open-source projects.<\/p>\n<p>On May 22, Bitcoin prices <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-tests-111000-amid-institutional-resurgence\">reached a peak<\/a> of $111,880 in the BTC\/USDT pair on the Binance exchange.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a user with the nickname Apsk32 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/analyst-sees-bitcoin-at-220000-in-2025\">claimed<\/a> that the first cryptocurrency would rise to $220,000 or higher by the end of the year if its correlation with gold persists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 22, the crypto community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day, marking the day when cryptocurrency was first used as a medium of exchange in the real world. ? HISTORY: 15 years ago today, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first Bitcoin transaction to buy two Papa John&#8217;s pizzas for 10,000 $BTC worth $40 at that time. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1560],"class_list":["post-24185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-pizza-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"47","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}